“Kaboom,” “Red State,” and More Premiere at Sundance 2011

Thomas Dekker

The Sundance Film Festival hits Utah on January 20-30, and brings with it the latest and greatest in gay cinema.

Among the collection is Gregg Araki's newest sci-fi-flavored queer sex comedy, Kaboom. The film features Thomas Dekker as a college student who's sexuality is "undecided." (You might remember Dekker as the subject of that Heroes de-gaying kerfuffle, or for his more recent turn in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.)

Director Araki is best known for his bizarre, sardonic take on youth culture, as seen in movies like The Doom Generation and Nowhere. After taking on more serious subject matter with Mysterious Skin, Kaboom seems to be a return to form.

Most of the trailers are too risque to post here, but this short clip would be safe for work...

Kevin Smith's long-hyped horror movie Red State features a group of deranged, villainous fundamentalists very reminiscent of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. Judging from the teaser trailer, it's a little different from Smith's usual fare.

Among the foreign cinema highlights is A Few Days of Respite, about a gay Iranian couple who find solace in the home of a lonely French woman.

A scene from A Few Days of Respite

Next page: documentaries and short films.